Vasilios Theodorakis - An Online Author

I ask people, is it:
Wonderful? - “Of course”
Timesaving? - “Indeed”
Right? - “Without a doubt”
Then why has man lost faith?
Why is the world in turmoil?
Why is half the earth’s population in poverty?
And why do people answer without thinking?

Audio Version (Podcast - MP3 / 32sec / 253kb)
Copyright © Vasilios Theodorakis 1983
(2nd poem written in 1983 - exact date of writing unknown)

I sit alone
Wonder; about man mostly.
His strange way of acceptance;
In fact, acceptance of anything;
Something new; different; strange; useful?
No!…… something destructive; heart breaking; soul destroying.
Something rammed home again and again until universally wonderful.
And me?
I watch; I listen; I silence my thoughts,
As the era will pass more quickly uninterrupted;
- Have patience - I say.

Audio Version (Podcast - MP3 / 46sec / 362kb)
Copyright © Vasilios Theodorakis 1983
(1st poem written in 1983 - exact date of writing unknown)